Lantern.



PATBNTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

LEIGHMOYLE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

LANTERN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed March 29, 1906. Serial No. 308,642.

T0 all whom 7lt 7nay c0ncern:

Be it known that I, LEIGH MOYLE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain neW and useful Improvements in Lanterns, of Which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speeification.

My invention relates to a globelifting att achment for tubular lanterns, and it has for its object to provide a simple and efficient means Whereby the globe may be readily lifted and lovvered, guided during its movement, and supported When in uplifted position.

Figure I is an elevation of a lantern equipped with my globe-lifting device,the globe being shown in lowered position. Fig. Il is a horizontal section taken on line II II, Fig. I. Fig. HI is an elevation of a part of the lantern and the lifting device, the lifting device being shown in the position assumed when the globe is in uplifted position.

A and A designate the air-tubes of a tubu lar lantern, that may be of any common construction. One of these airtubesfor instance, that Ais provided With a notch a.

B is the lantern-globe, that is seated upon the ordinary globe-plate C.

1 designates a guide member suitably attached to the globe-plate C and preferably formed of wire. This guide'member extends laterally from the globe-plate in a direction toward the air-tube A and it is bifurcated, as seen at 2, Fig. Il, to provide for its engagement in order that the member Will straddle said air-tube to permit vertical movement of the guide member on the tube and partially restrain the globe-plate from lateral movement.

3 designates a lift-arm, the inner portion of which is secured to the globeplate C, While the outer portion of the arm extends laterally from the globe-plate and upwardly into jux taposition With the air-tube A. The lift-arm 3 is constructed of Wire partially folded upon itself, and it is provided at its outer and upper end With a loop 4, which surrounds the airtube A to ride thereon in a vertical direc tion and serve as a holding member for the globe and globe-plate of the lantern during the actions of lifting and lowering thenn The upwardlyextending portion of the lift-arm 3, Which is of folded form, straddles a bead a at the inner edge of the air-tube A, thereby causing sa1d portion of the lift-arm-to serve as a guide member for the globe B and its plate during vertical movement thereof and also preventing lateral mo vement of the liftarrn. Projecting from the loop 4 of the liftarm is a fingerpiece 5.

A 6 designates a finger-piece-that is secured to the air-tube A above the loop of the liftarm.

In the use of my lifting device the operation of the parts is as follows: Assuming the globe B and the plate on which it is mounted to be in the lowered position illustrated in Fig.

I, the globe is lifted by the operator plaeing a thumb of his hand upon the fingerpiece 6 and placing a finger beneath the fingerpiece of the loop 4:. The operator then exerts a pull upon the loop fingerpiece and elevates the loop, the lift-arm by which it is carried, the globe-plate and globe, and the guide member 1 until the loop of the lift-arm has been raised to the notch a in the air-tube A in order that the loop may enter thereinto and be retamed in its uplifted position, due to such engagement, whereby all of the parts are held suspended until it is desired t0 loWer them. When the parts are to be lo wered, the operator exerts pressure agamst the finger piece 5 of the loop-arm in an outward direction, and the loop is forced from the notch a, thereby permitting it to be lowered With the lift-arm and other parts.

I claim 1. The combination in a lantern havmg a pair of air-tubes, and a globe-plate; of a Wire lift-arm secured to said globeplate and provided with a verticallyelongated guide portion engaging one of said tubes and a loop at the upper end of said guide portion encireling the guide-engaged tube; said air-tube being provided with a notch to receive said loop, substanally as set forth.

2. The combination in a lantern having a pair of air-tubes, and a globe-plate; of a wire lift-arm secured to said globeplate and having a folded vertically-elongated guide portion extending upwardly from said plate and engaging one of said air-tubes, and having a 100p at its upper and encircling the guide-enupper end of said guide portion encircling gaged tube, substantially as set forth. the guide-engaged tube, substantally as set 3. The combination in a lantern having a forth.

pair of air-tubes, and a globe-plate of & wire LEIGH MOYLE. lift-mm secured to said globe-plate and pro- In presence of Vided with a vertical elongated guide portion NELLIE V. ALEXANDER,

engaging one of sad tubes and a 100p at the BLANCHE IIOGAN. 

